Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird Program loses network connection
Author Mark Rotteveel
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:06:43 -0000, "gwc8182" <gwc8182@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have encountered a weird network problem and have no idea what might
be
> the cause of it.
>
> Background info: Using Firebird 2.0.5
> Program is written on Delphi with BDE.
> Server is Windows 7 Ultimate
> Clients are running mixed of Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, WinXP,
Vista
> Home Premium.
>
> Client connection path to the database is using TCP/IP
>
>
> Situation: Client's program frequently shows
> Error writing data to the connection
> An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Also check presence and configuration of virusscanners, firewalls or other
IDS systems on both client and server. In the past I have seen
virusscanners which would forcibly close connections to not-well-known or
'suspicious' ports if a large volume of traffic was sent in a short amount
of time (I think I have seen this with McAfee and I heard that NOD32 did as
well). This was almost always on the client-side(!).